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LS Lowry's City painting goes up for auction 03/06/2008 11:00



A painting by LS Lowry depicting a City game from the 1930s is expected to sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds at auction this Friday.
‘Manchester City v Sheffield United’, thought to be from based on the match played at Maine Road in October 1938, could fetch between £700,000 and £1m at Christies.

Rachel Hidderley, Christies Director and Co-Head of 20th Century British Art says: “Manchester City v Sheffield United is from a small but important group of paintings in which Lowry depicts and actual event rather than a composite image of different locations or impressions.

“The date of the work, combined with the title, suggests that the match depicted is Manchester City’s 3:2 home win against Sheffield United on 22nd October 1938.

“Lowry was a keen football supporter, and a City fan, and in the present work he concentrates on the home crowd rather than the team members, using the occasion of the match to concentrate on depicting the personalities of the individuals attending.”

This painting, along with three other works by Lowry, can be viewed this week before the auction itself, which starts at 10.30am on Friday.

For more information, go to http://www.christies.com.

*For the record, City's scorers that day were Ernie Toseland, Jack Milsom & Eric Brook.

Image courtesy of Christies Images Ltd. 2008.

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Joeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Frank should buy it for the clubs foyer.

I bet the twat wouldn't know who LS Lowry is. He doesn't have a soul.

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

Maybe he should offer it £200k a week.............

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Joeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Nah...

Although... Free replica painting with your replica shirt? Hmmmmm... Replica shirts with L.S.Lowry on the back? This could work. Do the deal.

They could take it on a tour of the far east to help heighten our profile, before you know it 'Matchstick men & matchstick cats and dogs' will be booming out of the bars and clubs of Bangkok.

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Joeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

You took the words right out of my mouth. Merchandise... Man city cloggs.

Anybody else not like Lowry's work or is it just me?

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Manchester City - No longer a "hole-in-the-sock" sort of club.

fixed

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Posting Bi-Monthly These Days

I was born with "methemoglobinemia"

I'm decidedly meh about it. I guess it captures the times and so it's less art and more history really. Is that what art should be? I'd sooner it caught an emotion than an era.

It's interesting to look at but not something I'd have hung on my wall. TBH, although I know he has now worldwide appeal, I think you really need to be from the Manchester area to really appreciate a lot of his work.

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Joeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I think you have to be from the Manchester area and old enough to remember the depression to really get it.

It's not technically brilliant, although he was a very accomplished painter when he wanted to be. It's more evocative of a time in english life. I'm feeling it.

So you have to be Bert then?

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Manchester City - No longer a "hole-in-the-sock" sort of club.

In a nutshell. Yes.

My hand is raised.

Not enough Stanna stairlifts for your liking I suppose?

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Manchester City - No longer a "hole-in-the-sock" sort of club.

Art just isn't art for me without a stair lift or a prosthetic limb or two.

I like that picture in particular and most of Lowry's work in general.
If i had the money i would buy it.

My dad was probably at that game.

I wasn't

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The Senior Member

Were you not allowed to go?

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Manchester City - No longer a "hole-in-the-sock" sort of club.